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Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
But then I go through long periods where I dont listen to things, usually when Im working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, theres innocence contained in you but theres also innocence in the process of being lost. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I didnt know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and Ill buy whatever catches my attention. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I hadnt performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when Im with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so thats a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time youre 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time youre 18. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Im a synthesist. Im always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesnt. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
In America everythings about whos number one today. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my fathers voice. But isnt that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddys shoes on? Hey, my kids do it. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Its a sad man my friend whos livin in his own skin and cant stand the company. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Its always felt natural, because Im generally very comfortable with people. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid 80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. - Bruce Springsteen Quotes
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